Lev Khasis


Lev Aronovich Khasis is a businessman, manager, investor, and entrepreneur. He was born in Kuybyshev, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
From 2006 to 2011, Khasis served as the first CEO of X5 Retail Group, a major Russian retail company. He then held senior positions at Walmart Stores Inc., including Senior Vice-President and CEO and President of New Formats, from 2011 to 2013. Khasis was also Vice-Chairman of Jet.com until the company was acquired by Walmart in 2016. Between 2014 and 2021, he served as a board member of several companies, including Kiavi.com, Momentus.space, Evotor, and DocDoc.
In 2013, Khasis was appointed First Deputy CEO of Sberbank, a position he held until February 2022. He resigned from Sberbank on 22 February 2022, reportedly in response to the impending Russian invasion of Ukraine, and subsequently left Russia.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Khasis was subjected to sanctions by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. The United Kingdom lifted sanctions on Khasis on 6 July 2023, Canada followed on 10 November 2023, and Australia removed him from its sanctions list on 12 April 2024.

Education

Lev Khasis completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1989, he graduated from the Samara National Research University with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. In 1995, he graduated from the Banking Faculty of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. In May 1998, he received a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Samara National Research University, and in July 2006, he received a PhD in Economics from the Institute for System Analysis at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Career

He served in various roles in business and the academy.